"We are framing this period in the 60s as a moment when people -- in particularly the youth across every area of society, and across, Britain, America and most of Europe -- went through a series of radical shifts by imagining better worlds, better ways of living that then came to pass," said co-curator Victoria Broackes ahead of the exhibition's September 10 opening.

While the exhibition does focus heavily on the music and personalities that shaped the era, Broackes stresses that the exhibition is as much about the radical ideas they represented.